The Economist - USA (2019-07-20)

The EconomistJuly 20th 2019 3

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Contents

The world this week

6 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 Space exploration

The next 50 years

10 Asylum rules

While you were tweeting

10 Business in America

Soaring stockmarket,

peaking profits

11 Japanv SouthKorea

Historywars

14 DemocracyinMalaysia

Timetoburythetoolsof

oppression

Letters

15 OnHongKong,freetrade,

California,London,

MontyPython

Briefing

18 Warinspace

Usingtheforce

United States

21 Paid family leave

22 The Daddy trap

24 Storytime with the Fed

25 Access to contraception

25 Politics and housemates

26 LexingtonBack to where

hecamefrom

The Americas

27 Trump’s asylum order

28 Saving right whales

30 BelloThe Venezuela talks

Asia

31 Japan’s broken politics

32 Pakistan’s tribal areas

33 BanyanJapan and South

Korea

34 Australia’s minimum wage

34 Civil liberties in Malaysia

35 OpulentAfghanweddings

China

36 Investment migrants

37 Politically correct

cross-dressing

Middle East & Africa

38 WhatsApp in Africa

39 Ebola spreads

40 Hanging Chad

40 How Arab states wreck

holidays

41 Saudi Arabia’s sexist laws

CharlemagneDoes

Ursula von der Leyen

have the right skills for

the European

Commission presidency?

Page 46

On the cover

A new age of space exploration
is beginning. It will need the
rule of law and a system of
arms control to thrive: leader,
page 9. Attacking satellites is
increasingly attractive. It could
also be very dangerous:
briefing, page 18. Space is
commercialising. The legal
system needs to catch up,
page 50. There is renewed
interest in returning people to
the Moon. This time it might
actuallyhappen,page 65

• The electoral logic of racist
  tweetsDonald Trump’s
  re-election campaign is likely to
  be even more racially divisive
  than his first: Lexington,page 26.
  Amid the outrage over the
  president’s race-baiting, his
  administration rewrote asylum
  law: leader, page 10


• Asia’s homegrown trade war
  An escalating dispute between
  Japan and South Korea will test a
  strained global-trade system:
  leader,page 11. Relations
  between the two countries are
  fraying alarmingly: Banyan,
  page 33


• Why profits have peaked
  After years of plenty America Inc
  is struggling to crank out more
  earnings,page 10. Is it time to
  worry? Page 52


• Cross-dressing in ChinaDrag
  artists are tolerated if they look
  like Chinese opera stars,
  page 37